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Buncombe County advisory committee moves to tighten grant scoring, collect clearer client data
Summary
The Buncombe County Home and Community Care Block Grant advisory committee focused on refining its funding priorities and scoring tool, seeking simpler application questions, basic demographic and waiting-list data, and a statement of mission to guide allocations as federal funding tightens.
The Buncombe County Home and Community Care Block Grant advisory committee on Aug. 27 spent most of its meeting revising how it evaluates applicants and what data it will ask providers to supply for county-funded grants.
Committee members said they want a clearer statement of mission, a simpler scoring sheet tied to those values, and a compact set of client-level statistics that county commissioners can use when deciding allocations. Members discussed using ZIP-code reports, counts of unduplicated clients, waiting-list figures, basic demographic markers (age ranges, living alone, caregiver status) and whether programs reduce risk or keep older adults safely at home.
The discussion came as staff reported operational details from funded providers: most county contracts were fully executed except for one provider, Maybank, whose contract remained in the county legal…
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